Posted on 08/08/2006 8:59:04 PM PDT by woofie
Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann MSNBC July 28, 2006
Dear Mr. Olbermann,
We are deeply dismayed by your ongoing use of the Nazi "Sieg Heil" salute, both on your program and in public appearances -- including the recent Television Critics Association press tour -- while holding up a mask of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.
While we understand that your aim is to entertain your audience by taking pot shots at Mr. O'Reilly, your repeated use of the Nazi salute has resulted in many complaints from our constituents, including Holocaust survivors and their families who find the use of this gesture offensive and repugnant in any context.
The Nazi salute is more than just a remnant of history, but serves as a calling card for modern-day neo-Nazis and white supremacists. We believe that the use of gestures and imagery associated with the Nazis – even in jest – only serves to trivialize the Holocaust and denigrate the memory of the six million Jews and others who died as a result of Hitler's Final Solution.
As a respected and well-known media personality, your actions have consequences and can set a standard for others to emulate. We are especially concerned that young people viewing your program might take their cues from your free use of the "Sieg Heil" salute.
In light of these concerns, we hope that you will reconsider your use of the Nazi salute in the future.
Sincerely,
The Anti-Defamation League
The Dallas Morning News' Ed Bark did a cover story about/Valentine to Keith Olbermann this Sunday in the television supplement. One segment had Olbermann talking about what a maverick he is, taking on Bill O'Reilly every night, but that he "isn't afraid to stick his head up and take some whacks." Yeah. It's real tough being a liberal in the MSM, Keith. Bark then said Olbermann was making heavy inroads in the ratings, coming up only 90,000 viewers shy of Larry King. Well, I just looked up the ratings for July, and it looks like he was about three quarters of a million shy of King's numbers. When you're that poorly rated, 90,000 viewers isn't chump change anyway.
So you're the one!
Olbermann's intense and insane jealousy of FoxNews'( specially, O'Reilly's)success in consuming him...to our delight...
Of course. He isn't Rush Limbaugh.
Don't you have a Bund meeting to go to?
They were going along just fine until this part. Wrong twice in one sentence.
You beat me to it!
and that doesn't include those who died in battle with them on several fronts. Just imagine the civilian casualties alone!. It was a disproportionate holocaust I tell ya.
Did Mel Gibsons' jewih-Israeli bodyguard ever make a statement or quite or anything?
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If you think Olbermann's fawning oafishness is in the same class as the genius physical comedy and satire of John Cleese, I can't help you.
I heard he had an Israeli bodyguard from radio or TV or something... I don't remember where.
More like Al Franken
Okay, thanks.
Was Mel's Bodyguard with him when he got his DUI?
I did not actually read the articles. lol
Vhere are your papers?
Do you still haf a family in Germany?
You vill answer my questions? Schwinehund. Now!
Oh excuse me mister Olberman. Oops, I mean Herr General Olberman. No one really considers you a Nazi.
Just because you Goose step all the time and Sieg Heil.
Do you really think that this is the Fourth Reich?
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